For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Unknown Quotations by unknown authors The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. Woodrow Wilson 28th president of US (1856 - 1924) Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. Author Unknown Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Louis Bergson The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker US novelist (1936 - ) Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975) The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell" pseud. of Philip Jose Farmer The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich US (German-born) Protestant theologian (1886 - 1965) |